topic: United States
April 2, 2015
Eleven years ago, President George W Bush signed into law the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act”, a landmark piece of legislation detailing...
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March 31, 2015
The Represent exhibition, on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since January 10th, was developed by organizing curator John Vick...
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March 27, 2015
In the last US presidential election there was little mention of an agenda to improve the lives of the roughly 15% of Americans who live in...
Literature
March 23, 2015
There are fields beyond. The world there obeys / The living Word; names, numbers do for this. / The grave’s cross, the grave’s grass, the...
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March 11, 2015
At Insight Crime , Patrick Corcoran has a piece up arguing that Mexico needs to rethink how it pursues leaders of the country's drug trade...
Conversations
February 25, 2015
This interview with Chilean-born, New York-based artist Alfredo Jaar was conducted over several weeks in 2011-2012. For Jaar, making the...
Opinion
February 22, 2015
Torture is a violation of the law, both domestic and international. It also happens to be a moral outrage. Leaving aside the legal...
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February 21, 2015
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery." - Malcolm X (...
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February 20, 2015
Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free. Frederick Douglass, writer, orator and preeminent African-American social reformer...
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